Healing Alongside Others
Who Understand
There's something powerful about realizing you're not the only one. Individual therapy is essential, but for many people, real breakthroughs happen in a room with others who are facing something similar. Our group therapy programs bring together children, adolescents, and adults for both psychoeducational groups, focused on building understanding and skills, and therapeutic groups, focused on deeper emotional processing and connection.
Groups are smaller, intentional, and facilitated by a clinician who keeps the space safe, structured, and productive, not just a conversation, but real therapeutic work done together.
Psychoeducational Groups
These groups are built around learning and skill building. Participants come together to understand a specific challenge, whether that's anxiety, social skills, emotional regulation, or navigating a particular life transition, and to practice concrete strategies for managing it. Psychoeducational groups tend to be more structured, often following a curriculum or set of skills across sessions, and are especially effective for children and adolescents who benefit from practicing new skills alongside peers.
Therapeutic Groups
Therapeutic groups go deeper, offering a space for participants to process emotions, share experiences, and support one another under the guidance of a trained clinician. These groups work well for grief, life transitions, and shared experiences that benefit from the perspective and support of others who genuinely understand, not just intellectually, but because they've lived something similar.
Current Group Offerings
Our current groups give students a supportive space to connect with peers facing similar challenges, guided by Angela Soto. Explore what's currently offered below.
Competing at a high level takes more than skill and repetition. This group helps student athletes build the mental tools that hold up under pressure, from confidence and focus to resilience after a tough loss or injury. Topics covered include: balancing school and sports demands, self-image, stress management, and more. Because the strongest athletes train the mind, not just the body.
A new school year, a new school, or a new grade can bring more anxiety than students let on. This group gives students a steady place to land while they adjust, with practical tools and peer support to navigate the uncertainty that comes with change. Because every new beginning deserves solid ground.
Many students spend more energy managing how they look than how they feel. This group helps students separate the two, building a sense of self-worth that doesn't rise and fall with a mirror, a photo, or someone else's opinion. Because every student deserves to feel whole and worthy, exactly as they are.
Between school pressure and a phone that never stops showing everyone else's best moments, students today are comparing themselves constantly. This group helps students recognize the comparison trap, understand how perfectionism and social media feed off each other, and build self-worth that doesn't depend on grades or likes. Because no one was ever meant to compete with a highlight reel.
Parenting well starts with a parent who has something left to give. This support group helps parents refill their own reserves, connect with others carrying the same daily struggles, and walk away with real tools for everyday family life. Because taking care of yourself is how you take care of them.
Our groups are 75 minutes long and we have at least 2 available dates and times a week for students to be able to pick the best schedule for them. The groups will be limited in size and made up of students in the same age range. For example high school students will not be with middle school students. If possible, the Owning Your Image group will be separated by gender, if enough participants are interested. If a student misses a session, they can make it up on the next cycle. The price for each group per participant is $60 per session, for a total of 6 weeks at $360 per student. Depending on the family’s insurance, most groups are reimbursed at a majority of the cost.
Who Groups Are For
Children and Adolescents:
Groups focused on social skills, emotional regulation, friendship difficulties, and building confidence in peer relationships, giving kids a low-pressure space to practice new skills with others their age.
Teens:
Groups addressing the specific pressures of adolescence, including anxiety, self-esteem, and the social and academic stress that so many teenagers carry, often in a format that feels more like connection than a formal session.
Adults
Groups for adults navigating shared experiences such as anxiety, grief, life transitions, or the challenges of parenting, offering both practical tools and the relief of shared understanding.
Parents
Group support for parents navigating a specific challenge together, whether that's raising an anxious child, co-parenting after separation, or simply the ordinary difficulty of parenting in a demanding world.
Why Group Therapy Works
Group therapy offers something individual sessions can't fully replicate: the experience of being understood by people who are genuinely walking a similar path. It reduces isolation, builds real world social and communication skills in real time, and often surfaces insights that come more naturally in conversation with peers than in a one-on-one session. For many participants, group therapy works well alongside individual therapy, reinforcing progress from both directions.
Who This Is For
Anyone who feels isolated in what they're going through and would benefit from connection alongside clinical support. Parents looking for a structured, skill-building environment for a child struggling socially or emotionally. Adults navigating a shared life challenge who want both community and real therapeutic guidance. Anyone who has found individual therapy valuable and is ready to add the dimension of group support.
Getting Started
Interested in joining a group, or want to know what's currently forming? Reach out and we'll let you know what's available and whether a group might be the right next step for you or your family.